half-awake
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"I was drifting in that half-asleep, half-awake place when I sensed a presence in the room," she wrote in her book.
From Fox News ● Jan. 24, 2022
Since any half-awake journalist would know that our West End Avenue address was no office building, we thought putting "Suite 7C" with that address on FAIR's stationery was an open joke, rather than a lie.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2021
So, I’ve given up on efforts to propel my half-awake self to the gym before dawn.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2017
Even more unsettlingly, he knows that territory you inhabit on the edge of dreams — when you’re suddenly half-awake in the middle of the night and aren’t sure where you are.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
Shadow spent the night half-awake, drifting in and out of sleep, listening to his new cellmate grunt and snore in the bunk below him.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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